. Her Majesty's Tower . l of Salisbury, LordWharton, and the Duke of Buckingham) for givingvoice to a common view of parliamentary law, hetreated his fifth commitment to the Tower as a passingjest, propitiated Charles with jests, and left his fellow-prisoners with a jest. What! cried the Earl ofShaftesbury from his prison-window, as he saw theDuke going out, are you going to leave us ? Why,yes, laughed Buckingham in his face : you see, suchgiddy-headed fellows as I am can never stay long inone place. And thus the light comedian bade adieu to theTower, and went his way to that Yorkshire homebel
. Her Majesty's Tower . l of Salisbury, LordWharton, and the Duke of Buckingham) for givingvoice to a common view of parliamentary law, hetreated his fifth commitment to the Tower as a passingjest, propitiated Charles with jests, and left his fellow-prisoners with a jest. What! cried the Earl ofShaftesbury from his prison-window, as he saw theDuke going out, are you going to leave us ? Why,yes, laughed Buckingham in his face : you see, suchgiddy-headed fellows as I am can never stay long inone place. And thus the light comedian bade adieu to theTower, and went his way to that Yorkshire homebelonging to his wife in which his mad career wasshortly to be closed. In the worst inns worst room, with mats half hung,The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung ....Great Villiers lies—alas ! how changed from him,That life of pleasure and that soul of whim ! Almost at the very moment when he left the Towerin his fourth imprisonment, on the pout and prayerof Lady Castlemaine, the husband of that lady wasbrought in. 40. CHAPTER XLI. ROGER, EARL OF CASTLEMAINE.
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